How to Use prospect in a Sentence

prospect

1 of 2 noun
  • She is excited by the prospect of returning to school.
  • There was no prospect that the two parties would reach an agreement anytime soon.
  • We haven't decided which car to buy yet. We're still looking at a few prospects.
  • Bankruptcy is an unlikely prospect for the company.
  • By the day's end, Trump weighed in on that prospect too.
    Jonathan Lemire, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2019
  • The prospect of enough GOP flips, then, made the math a bit dicey.
    Tom Benning, Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2020
  • For the rest, the prospect of getting sick looms large.
    Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 June 2020
  • Hence, the Bills get a top-tier prospect in the bottom half of the round.
    oregonlive, 29 Mar. 2021
  • So will many of the prospects Cueto worked with along the way.
    Kerry Crowley, The Mercury News, 22 June 2019
  • But the long-term prospects for tech in the Bay Area are like the future.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • That said, the prospects for the season are in decent shape.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Still, Michele felt mixed emotions at the prospect then.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Sep. 2022
  • One man who was sold on the prospect was Joseph Grinnell.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Oct. 2020
  • The next day, the ship’s owner backed out, spooked by the prospect of further strikes.
    Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
  • There was no prospect of getting any more oil out of the old well.
    WIRED, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The prospect felt, in that moment, less of a fever dream than ever.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Illinois had been shunned time and time again by the home state's elite prospects.
    Pat Disabato, Daily Southtown, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The moviegoing mouth waters at the prospect even as the moviegoing mind reels.
    BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • And as the year comes to a close, winter carries with it the prospect of more potholes.
    Chris Sikich, Indianapolis Star, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Warming in the Arctic has raised the prospect of a new rush for resources.
    Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2018
  • On this night in Queens, the team had a prospect, Officer Troy Safi, 43.
    Maria Cramer, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The former five-star prospect did not see the field on Saturday.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The prospect of not being on The Other Two doesn’t take more than an instant to sink in.
    Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2023
  • The 24-year-old prospect tossed four scoreless innings.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2022
  • All the key information about a prospect was there at a glance.
    Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2020
  • Freedom can be a scary prospect after decades in prison.
    CBS News, 24 June 2018
  • Matthew Wykoff was ranked a three-star prospect out of Magnolia.
    Hannah Underwood, Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2021
  • One grapples with the prospect of finding a sperm donor and raising a child on her own.
    The New Yorker, 11 May 2020
  • But the prospect of hope and progress remained alive, just waiting for sparks to ignite.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 2 July 2020
  • Still, many parents across the country are less thrilled about the prospect, surveys show.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 27 June 2022
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prospect

2 of 2 verb
  • The same things are said about Tigers prospect Franklin Perez.
    Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2018
  • The top @Rangers prospect homers for the sixth time in 12 games since rejoining the @RRExpress.
    Michael Kelly, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Dyer caught gold fever in 1881 and moved to Prescott to prospect, a job that didn’t pan out.
    Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Roche agreed to take me prospecting below the Bossons glacier.
    The Economist, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Dumba and prospect Matthew Boldy would have to be part of the mix here, as well as the Wild’s two first-rounders (21st, 25th).
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2021
  • At least one reason, Meacham said, was to prospect and mine red ocher.
    Fox News, 7 July 2020
  • But Ortiz wasn’t the only Orioles prospect to stand out on the farm.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2023
  • Will prospect Matt Manning get a chance to contribute down the stretch?
    Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2020
  • The company is being closely watched as one of the year’s top IPO prospects.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Hayes bounces back and prospect Oneil Cruz brings some excitement.
    Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Thornton got a call from a Coyotes goalie scout over the summer inviting him to prospect camp.
    José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2021
  • If the project moved ahead, then his company would conduct the site’s prospecting work.
    Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Robots would prospect the area to determine where to mine.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 15 July 2023
  • Such moments suggest the potential that has the Sox and prospect watchers agog.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The last Giants prospect with no big-league time to win a starting job out of spring training was Brandon Belt in 2011.
    Henry Schulman, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Second base will belong to prospect Franklin Barreto at some point.
    Orange County Register, 1 Apr. 2017
  • Vecino's agent is believed to have met with Inter this week amongst all the took of his prospected move.
    SI.com, 28 June 2018
  • Focus on point Many point guard prospects either met with the Pistons or will meet with them later this week.
    Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, 17 May 2018
  • That set up the ninth-inning heroics off former Twins prospect Nick Burdi.
    Phil Miller, Star Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Copeland is a 6-foot, 192-pound prospect out of Escambia High in Pensacola, Fla.
    Tom Green, AL.com, 14 June 2017
  • Brokers in that office would prospect and secure deals in states where they were not licensed, Miller said.
    Katelyn Ferral, Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2023
  • And now, seven years later, the scars of those prospecting efforts remain.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The Sox elected not to promote prospect Triston Casas, who has performed well in Worcester since the trade deadline.
    Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The recipe is simple: Sun, salty water, seed bio-prospected from the ocean and fertilizer.
    Lynn Brezosky, San Antonio Express-News, 27 June 2018
  • The case is related to the acquisition of a deepwater oil-prospecting license by Eni and Shell in the Gulf of Guinea in 2011.
    Chiara Albanese, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Shale drillers in the Permian Basin are producing vast amounts of gas as a byproduct of prospecting for oil.
    Rebecca Elliott, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
  • If production at the position continues to lag, the club could turn to prospect Daulton Varsho, who will open the season in the minors.
    Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Jones appeared to be on the outside of the first tier of top offensive lineman prospects heading into the 2020 NFL draft, but not out of it by far.
    Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Many of the most successful members of the Klondike gold rush sold goods and services to prospectors rather than prospecting themselves.
    David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023
  • The Rangers eventually turned to prospect Leody Taveras, who impressed them enough to be seen as a potential 2021 starter.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 2 Dec. 2020

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